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NBC's Radio Central is one of the points of origin for "hot line" news broadcasts. WSAZ in Huntington and WIKE in Pikeville, Ken- tucky, covering the recent floods; and WSB in Atlanta with a report on the Georgia State Senate declaring the 14th and 15th Amendments unconstitutional. A few excerpts from the "hot line" log of a single day indicate the flexibility and speed of the service: 9:07 A.M. — Spot report by Ed Newman, London: Duncan Sandys reports to British Cabinet on United States defense mission. 9:41 A.M. — Spot report by Welles Hangen, Cairo: exclusive on Egyptian officials' concern over situation inside Gaza. 1:53 P.M.— Spot report by Bob Schumacher, WBRE, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: colorful on-the-scene story of fire in one of the city's largest churches. The story was on the air even before it appeared on the wires of two of the press services. 5:43 P.M. — Spot report by Lee Nichols, Los Angeles: major gas explosion. 6:07 P.M. — Special service "feed" from Washington on Secretary Dulles' press conference with tape excerpts of the Secretary's remarks. The "hot line" is one of two major innovations de- signed to strengthen network radio news. The other is the five-minute, on-the-hour newscast which NBC now provides for the stations seventeen hours a day, Mondays through Fridays. Altogether, the NBC News Department now broad- casts over twenty hours of regularly scheduled network radio and television news programs per week, according to William R. McAndrew, Director of News. Five years ago, there were nine Monday-through- Friday network radio news shows per day, seven on Saturday and six on Sunday. On the present schedule, there are twenty-four radio network news shows per day Mondays through Fridays, seventeen on Saturday and sixteen on Sunday. In combined radio and tele- vision network time devoted to news, NBC now broad- casts three-and-a-half hours more scheduled network news than it did five years ago. This does not include specials and the "hot line" service. To provide NBC radio and television audiences with the most comprehensive coverage possible, NBC News employs more than 300 reporters, cameramen, com- mentators, and writers, and hundreds of top news "stringers" around the globe. Between 20,000 and 30,000 feet of news film a week is sent into NBC News headquarters in New York. There it is processed, screened and edited for use on network and local television shows. NBC started its own TV news film operation in 1944, ten years before its competitors. Permanent foreign bureaus are maintained in Lon- don, Paris, Rome, Beirut, Bonn, Berlin, Cairo, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The coverage provided by these wide- ranging correspondents is supplemented by stringers and reciprocal agreements with foreign newsreel con- cerns. In the United States, NBC News has national bureaus in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Chi- cago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas and Atlanta. The trained news staffs of NBC affiliated stations pro- vide thorough coverage on the local level. 24 RADIO AGE